#Charcha2020: Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Post COVID-19

Register to join a discussion on 'Skill development and entrepreneurship'.

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As strong measures taken to contain COVID-19 show impact on the economy, small businesses and entrepreneurs find themselves in a fix. Both entrepreneurship and skilling strategies & solutions will go through changes due to the pandemic which has affected millions of people across the world. The need of the hour is to bring new innovations and ideas to strengthen the future for this important section of the economy. What does the future hold for the skilling and entrepreneurship sector?

In a 3-day panel discussion by The Nudge Foundation, Charcha 2020 - 14 May-16 May - Experts explored 'Skill development and entrepreneurship' post-COVID-19.

The key topics of the panel discussions on 16 May were -

  • Increasing the competitiveness of the middle of the pyramid entreprises and panel discussion on increasing the competitiveness of enterprises in the middle of the pyramid

  • Keynote address on introduction to technology as an enabler

Watch here:

Some of the sessions discussed on Friday were 'Governance and policies to create an environment for accelerated recovery', 'Reverse migration, skilling at source or migration support at demand points to get the workers back', 'Innovation and digital transformation in the skilling sector' and 'Employing disruptive thinking and platform economies to drive progress in the skilling sector'.

You can watch all the key session on Friday, 15 May here:

On Thursday, 14 May, innovative ideas to transform implementation strategies across the skilling value chain and the role of upskilling, reskilling and alternate skilling were being discussed by the experts. They also discussed emerging perspectives of funders in the backdrop of the economic crisis and the evolution of the funding landscape. You can watch the sessions here :

You can register for the panel event here.

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Published: 14 May 2020,11:27 AM IST

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